There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.